Volatility has been the dominant theme in financial markets lately. As uncertainty around COVID-19 and its impact on the economy deepens, markets have been swinging wildly. We’ve seen the S&P 500 ...

In a world of financial markets characterized by constant fluctuations and uncertainties, investors are often on the lookout for strategies to safeguard their assets and potentially generate ...

The derivatives market doesn’t deal with fungible assets. Instead, it’s a secondary market focused on the volatility of capital markets and assets. As the name implies, the financial products traded ...

The U.S. economy is on the mend. The European debt crisis is under control. The financial crisis of 2008 is receding into memory. And volatility is tamed. In fact, the CBOE Volatility Index hit 11.50 ...

As equities push higher despite mounting geopolitical and policy uncertainty, derivatives strategists at major Wall Street banks are leaning into trades designed to profit from a rare mix of rising ...

A number of venture capital giants have completed a financing round for Ethereum-based volatility and derivatives protocol Volmex Finance. According to a March 17 announcement from Volmex Labs, the ...

(Reuters) -The value of derivative-related margin calls at hedge funds and other market participants nearly tripled after the Trump administration announced larger-than-expected U.S. tariffs this ...

The final quarter of 2020 will be the start of the last three months of a year that we will all remember (not fondly). Pending regulatory approval, it will also bring traders a new method of getting ...

The ability to compute exotic greeks is important in explaining profit and loss statements, but what is the best way to calculate them effectively? In a virtual talk for the Bloomberg Quant (BBQ) ...

CHICAGO, IL - DECEMBER 19: Traders trade VIX contracts at the Cboe Global Markets exchange (previously referred to as CBOE Holdings, Inc.) on December 19, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Last week the ...

Is low volatility gone, or will it continue in 2018? Winners in the Derivatives categories are hedging their bets on which way the volatility pendulum swings in order to stay ahead of the game.